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New Delhi (Lok Sabha Constituency)
New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 7 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi. This constituency came into existence in 1951. It is the oldest constituency of Delhi that currently exists. Assembly segments Following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies, since 2008, it comprises the following Delhi Vidhan Sabha segments: From 1993–2008, it comprised the following Delhi Vidhan Sabha segments: # Sarojini Nagar (Polling stations 1-93) # Gole Market (Polling stations 1-100) # Minto Road (Polling stations 1-135) # Kasturba Nagar (Polling stations 1-21 and 23-114) # Jangpura # Matia Mahal (Polling stations 84-108) From 1966–93, New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following Delhi Metropolitan Council segments: # Sarojini Nagar # Laxmibai Nagar # Gole Market # Bara Khamba # Minto Road # Jangpura # Kasturba Nagar # Lajpat Nagar Members of Parliament The New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meenakshi Lekhi
Meenakshi Lekhi (born 30 April 1967) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture of India from 7 July 2021. She is a Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party./Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4717 She is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. She won the high-profile New Delhi parliamentary constituency as a BJP candidate in the 2014 elections and was re-elected in 2019. In July 2016, she was appointed as chairperson of the Committee on Privileges of the Lok Sabha in Parliament. On 26 July 2019, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla appointed Lekhi as a chairperson of parliamentary committee on Public Undertakings and is continuing since then in that position. Besides writing articles in journals, periodicals and newspapers on socio-political issues, she participates in various television shows on matters on national and international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalit
Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a avarna, fifth varna, also known by the name of ''Panchama''. Dalits now profess various religious beliefs, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam. Scheduled Castes is the official term for Dalits as per the Constitution of India. History The term ''Dalit'' is a self-applied concept for those called the "untouchables" and others that were outside of the traditional Hindu caste hierarchy. Economist and reformer B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) said that untouchability came into Indian society around 400 CE, due to the struggle for supremacy between Buddhism and Historical Vedic religion, Brahmanism (an ancient term for Brahmanical Hinduism). Some Hindu priests befriended untouchables ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucheta Kripalani
Sucheta Kripalani (''née'' Majumdar; 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967. Early life She was born in Ambala, Punjab (now in Haryana) into a Bengali Brahmo family. Her father Surendranath Majumdar, worked as a medical officer, a job that required many transfers. As a result, she attended a number of schools, her final degree is a Master’s in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. This was a time when the country’s atmosphere was charged with nationalist sentiments and the freedom struggle was gaining momentum. She was a shy child, self-conscious about her appearance and intellect, as she points out in her book, An Unfinished Autobiography. It was the age she grew up in and the situations she faced that shaped her personality. Sucheta recounts how, as a 10-year-old, she and her siblings had heard their fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jangpura
Jangpura is a neighbourhood in South East Delhi district of Delhi. Beginning from the east and moving clockwise, it is bordered by the Mathura Road, Ring Railway line, Silver Oak Park beyond the Defence Colony Flyover, and the Barapulla Nullah. It encompasses the residential areas of Jangpura A and B on either side of the Mathura Road, Jangpura (Bhogal) extending west from the Mathura Road until Jangpura Extension, which in turn extends along the northern side of the Ring Railway line to the east side of the Defence Colony Flyover on Josip Broz Tito Marg. The small colony of Pant Nagar along the Barapulla Nullah is contiguous with Jangpura Extension. Jangpura is a Delhi Legislative Assembly constituency within the South Delhi Lok Sabha seat, following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies. History One Colonel Young, tasked with moving the villagers of Raisina – a village soon to disappear to make way forthIt is a tourist attraction, hazarat Nizammudin railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gole Market
Gole Market is a neighborhood in the heart of New Delhi, India built within a traffic roundabout by Edwin Lutyens in 1921. It is one of New Delhi's oldest surviving colonial markets and is considered an architecturally significant structure. The dodecagonal market was built in the axis planned by Edwin Lutyens as part of New Delhi's layout. Peshwa Road, Ramakrishna Ashram Road, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, and Bhai Veer Singh Road are four radial roads leading from the market. History The octagonal market, designed by Edwin Lutyens, was built in 1921 as an important part of a wider development plan. In the years that followed, the Connaught Place shopping area was built adjacent to it, catering to the daily needs of thousands of government employees living in nearby residential areas built for them in 1925. These employees worked at the nearby Secretariat Building, as most government offices had relocated from Old Delhi a decade before the new capital had been inaugurated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matia Mahal (Delhi Assembly Constituency)
Matia Mahal Assembly constituency is one of the seventy Delhi assembly constituencies of Delhi in northern India. Matia Mahal assembly constituency is a part of Chandni Chowk (Lok Sabha constituency). Electoral history The constituency was created in 1993 after abolition of Metropolitan Council. Since then, it has been represented by Shoaib Iqbal who contested the seats 7 times from different parties. However, during 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, he contested from Indian National Congress and lost to Asim Ahmed Khan by a huge margin. After the reunification of three municipal corporations into Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Constituency was divided into 3 wards - Chandni Mahal, Sita Ram Bazaar and Delhi Gate.The constituency has 3 wards under it each represented by a Councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jangpura (Delhi Assembly Constituency)
Jangpura Assembly constituency is one of the seventy Delhi assembly constituencies of Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ... in northern India. Jangpura assembly constituency is a part of South East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency). It is a posh neighbourhood in South Delhi district of Delhi divided into Jangpura, Jangpura Extension, Jangpura A and Jangpura B. Members of the Legislative Assembly Key Election results 2020 2015 2013 2008 2003 1998 1993 Other State Wings Uttarakhand Wing In 2018 Gopal Rai introduced Uttarakhand wing in Aam Aadmi Party Delhi. In January 2021 Arvind Kejriwal announced that AAP would be contesting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi Vidhan Sabha
The Delhi Legislative Assembly, also known as the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral legislature of the union territory of Delhi in India. Delhi Legislative Assembly is the legislative arm of the Government of Delhi. At present, it consists of 70 members, directly elected from 70 constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner. The seat of assembly is the Old Secretariat building, which is also the seat of the Government of Delhi. History The Delhi Legislative Assembly was first constituted on 7 March 1952 under the Government of Part C States Act, 1951; it was inaugurated by Home Minister K. N. Katju. The Assembly had 48 members, and a Council of Ministers in an advisory role to the Chief Commissioner of Delhi, though it also had powers to make laws. The first Council of Ministers was led by Chaudhary Brahm Prakash, who became the first Chief Minister of Delhi. However, the States Reorganisation Commission, set up in 1953, led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Delhi
South Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India with its headquarters in Saket. Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, Saket, Hauz Khas, and Mehrauli. It is bounded by the Yamuna River to the east, the districts of New Delhi to the north, Faridabad District of Haryana state to the southeast, Gurgaon District of Haryana to the southwest, and South West Delhi to the west. South Delhi has a population of 2,731,929 (2011 census), and an area of , with a population density of 9,034 persons per km2 (23,397 persons per mi2). The South Delhi neighborhood of Hauz Khas is witnessing the growth of trendy shops and lodgings. It is now becoming the center for domestic and international tourists and backpackers. The area also is home to historical monuments and has easy access to the Delhi Metro, making it a preferred location for many visitors to India and domestic middle-class visitors from other Indian st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East Delhi District
South East Delhi is an administrative List of districts of Delhi, district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India. This district was carved out in 2012 along with Shahdara district, Shahdara, taking the total number to 11 administrative districts in Delhi. Geography The South East Delhi district is bordered in west by South Delhi, South Delhi district, in south by the Faridabad district of Haryana, in east by Yamuna, River Yamuna, and by New Delhi district and East Delhi, East Delhi district in north-west and north-east respectively. The district stretches from Jor Bagh, Lodhi Road, Khan Market, Sunder Nagar, Nizamuddin East, Nizamuddin West, Sarai Kale Khan, through Defence Colony, Lajpat Nagar, New Friends Colony, Nehru Place, Kalkaji, Chittaranjan Park, Govindpuri, Greater Kailash, Alaknanda to Jamia Nagar, Okhla, Sarita Vihar, Jaitpur and Badarpur, Delhi, Badarpur. Administration Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, Defence Colony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Delhi
West Delhi is one of the 11 administrative districts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India. Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, Patel Nagar, Rajouri Garden and Punjabi Bagh. West Delhi is bound by the districts of North West Delhi to the north, North Delhi and Central Delhi to the east, South West Delhi to the south, and Jhajjar District of Haryana state to the west. Major residential and commercial areas of Delhi like Janakpuri and Tilak Nagar are located in West Delhi. West Delhi has an area of 129 km², with a population density of nearly 14,000 persons per km². The population of 2,543,243 consists of 1,356,240 males and 1,187,003 females. Children between 0–6 years are 203,528 consisting of 109,526 boys and 94,002 girls. The literacy rate is above 70% at a total of 1,301,252 of which 739,572 are males and 561,680 females. Demographics According to the 2011 census West Delhi has a population of 2,543,243, roughly equal t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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